Food can be quite a controversial topic sometimes. It's all about preference, you see: some might want a steak well-done, and others want their meat to be practically mooing on their plate.
Hana Zickgraf, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Psychology who specializes in eating behavior and disorders, claims that about 30% of the population identifies as picky eaters. But is it possible that sometimes people just like food done a certain way?
Some food snobs would have you think that there's only one way to cook pasta, sear a steak, or cook an egg. But these people would like to prove you wrong. At the risk of becoming enemies of the foodie world, these folks were brave enough to share the foods they prepare differently on purpose. So, when one user asked: "What food do you intentionally cook 'incorrectly?'", over 2,000 home cooks rushed in with their hot takes.
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Burnt hot dogs. I love an over cooked grilled hot dog.\
MAK3AWiiSH: The only way I can eat a hot dog is if it’s charred to a crisp as if it just ascended from the depths of hell
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Bacon. I like more of a chew to it than a crunch.
Intelligent_Break_12: Crispy bacon is fine for a topping but if I'm eating it as a side or even on a sandwich of some kind, I don't want it so crispy that it falls apart. I want to chew through that fat and have a crisp edge
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I put beans in my chili.
Edit so I don't have to keep answering the same couple of things:
* I'm in Texas and beans / no beans is a very big deal among chili purists. The definitive book on chili history, by Joe E. Cooper, is even called 'With or Without Beans'. * [This is a good all around, no-beans-included, traditional chili con carne recipe.] It's like a spicy pot roast, usually more *warm* spicy, not Hot Ones Last Dab spicy. The ancho / poblano chile peppers that usually make up most of the chile flavoring are not terribly spicy though they are delicious and pungent!
(As I understand it, the chili queens - that's what they called them! - of San Antonio served frijoles as a standard side dish with chili con carne. When cowboys and other folks were out on the trail, the chuck wagon cooks would do the same, but since the cowboys weren't eating off of cafeteria trays, the beans and chili would just get all mixed together and lots of them learned to prefer it that way! That's almost certainly apocryphal in whole or in part, of course, but it makes as much sense as anything.)
* Cincinatti chili is it's own separate thing, and is just a name that an otherwise tasty meat sauce got saddled with.
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Salmon. I hate Perfectly Cooked Salmon. I prefer it the texture of canned fish.
fraochmuir: Same. I like my fish to what most people would call overcooked. Otherwise it grosses me out
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